CVE-2025-6616
Published: 25 June 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-6616 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Dlink Dir-619L Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 7.4 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 25.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-19123
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability has been found in D-Link DIR-619L 2.06B01 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function formSetWAN_Wizard51 of the file /goform/formSetWAN_Wizard51. The manipulation of the argument curTime leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack can be initiated remotely.…
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The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stack-based buffer overflow in the D-Link DIR-619L router's public-facing web interface (/goform/formSetWAN_Wizard51) via 'curTime' parameter enables remote code execution, directly facilitating T1190: Exploit Public-Facing Application for initial access.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.